Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Personal Dynamics A-Go-Go
By Miss Alli | Season 1 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.02.2001
Those on the train realize that a taxi would have been faster. Oops. Speaking of taxis, Kevin and Drew look out the window of theirs and realize that they're driving next to a truck full of camels. "That's the first live camel I've ever seen," Drew says. Hasn't Drew ever been to the zoo? For cryin' out loud, I'm not that worldly, and I've seen a lot of live camels. (Reread that sentence. Chances I'll ever have use for that sentence again? Zero.)
Dave and Margaretta desperately try to resolve their currency problem. Eventually, a nice guy wanders by and does some combination of changing some money for them and just handing them a few dinar. Once they pay the fare and get going, Margaretta voices over that Dave is the eternal optimist, and he's always sure things will work out. "If this is our last leg," she says to him in the cab, "it's our last leg. Kick back and enjoy it." "It's a day like all days, and we were there," Davey remarks, and even though it's swiped from an old TV show, if that's not a workable philosophy of life, I don't know what is. Seriously, I've been carrying this remark around all week, ever since I heard Davey say it. Every day can be described that way: a day, like all days, and you were there. Sigh.
Commercials. Drivers wanted. Hey, watch that Wolf Lake show. It has partial nudity. Yeah, baby. I love me some naked wolves.
Coliseum. Phil explains this week's roadblock, which is somewhat hard to follow. This week, it goes a little something like this: Carrying a big torch, you walk clockwise around the outside of the Coliseum until you get to a dark and creepy little stairwell, which you take down one level and wander around down there. Then you find your way to a bunch of swords hanging on ropes over what Phil ominously calls "the Pit of Death." (Which sounds like it would still give better customer service than my bank.) You untie one of the swords, and you take it with you back out to the main part of the Coliseum, where you and your partner put the sword into a scabbard on a table, and that's the end. Last to place the sword is eliminated. The other trick to this particular roadblock is that the team members remain within shouting distance while the task is performed. You can't see your partner, but you can yell to him or her.
Team Guido is first to the roadblock. (Damn 'em.) The clue about the roadblock (meant to guide you in deciding who should do it) says, "Not for anyone who is afraid of the dark." Bill and Joe read the clue, and Bill says, "I don't care [who does it]." Joe hesitates as if he doesn't care, but then he emphatically calls out, "You do it!" Heh. That's all right, Joe, I don't like the dark either. Nancy and Emily are second to arrive. They have a little trouble deciding who should do it, but Emily eventually takes it on. This is one of our first good views of the really unfortunate cornrows Emily has in her hair -- well, they're kinda too thick to be cornrows, so maybe I should just say "braids." However I refer to them, they're not working for her. When Emily says she'll do the task, Nancy has a really funny moment of grinning and mouthing "thank you," because you know what? She didn't want to go down in the caverns. Heh. She can huddle with Joe.
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